Dao Lord's First Battle: Base and Vile

The moment Liu Dongqing truly overcame the three tribulations of Heaven, Earth, and Man, thoroughly attaining the Dao Lord of Myriad Dharma Elucidation.

To be honest.

This was the first time since Liu Dongqing began cultivating that a long, broad, unobstructed immortal path still lay before his eyes; yet before him, there was no one left.

This differed from every stage of cultivation he had experienced before.

Back when his cultivation had been meager, Hou Yanchang had been able to suppress Liu Dongqing so thoroughly in Sunward Dao Academy that he could not turn things around for years.

Then the killing tribulation had begun.

Seizing the moment, Liu Dongqing caught a glimpse of the cracks in the cage built by the great clans.

Yet at that time, even at the peak of Qi Refining, Jiang Xiuran had watched him like a tiger eyeing its prey within the killing trap; when he had finally become a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even Zhuang Wanqing, who had only just gained command of Ten Thousand Households' Lights, had made Liu Dongqing feel as though he faced a great enemy.

When he reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, An Zhixu, the master of Thunder Peak, sat cross-legged above the three-thousand-li providence celebration cloud over his head.

When he himself became a Golden Core True Person and rampaged across the netherworld, he had still been forced to face the majesty of the Nascent Soul realm.

When Liu Dongqing himself became a Nascent Soul Dao Lord, from Four Phases Mountain to the present Illusory Marsh, his entire course of cultivation in the Nascent Soul realm had in truth been a process of struggling to maintain that fragile balance with Shouchen.

Liu Dongqing had come step by step, from Qi Refining to Nascent Soul.

With every step, he tore